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Not sure if it's mentioned somewhere in this thread buried. But, if anyone is curious, you are delivered the alcohol already bottled and then they just give you an empty barrel. Still cool, but I know a group of people who have "bought a barrel" from JD in TN, twice actually, and that's how it's done.

It seems to me that the benefit of buying the barrel would be that you can buy the whiskey cheap while it's young then age it yourself. However, if it's not in the barrel, aging isn't going to do shit.

You do get a certain amount of discount by buying a whole barrel, but that's not really the point of buying a barrel (as an individual). If you go to their distillery the have a room that has little plaques on the wall for everyone who has purchased a whole barrel. Many of the names are groups or companies buying for a discount for distribution asking their members or as gifts to management, etc. I would suspect that the primary impetus for an individual purchasing an entire barrel is simply to purchase an entire barrel. Jack Daniel's does not want you to age your whiskey yourself. In fact I would suspect that they would tell you that you cannot in fact age a barrel of their whiskey properly outside of their aging houses. Whether or not that's true, I can't say, but I can say with some confidence that they would tell you that.

Not only that, but every barrel is just a little bit different, different subtleties and hues brought on by small variations in the wood, aging, location in the aging warehouse, etc.

Some local liquor stores (TN) taste their own bourbon barrels prior to buying to get a variant they like that they can move in bulk. They then get a bunch of "hand selected" labeled bottles and the barrel itself, but most importantly they get a uniform product. And a discounted price, of course. Buffalo Trace does a lot of business this way.

You wouldn't buy a barrel that isn't aged - shouldn't, really. The place you store it could easily change the character of the whiskey significantly, or spoil it if not in the proper temperature range / not turned properly / leaks handled properly. It's a whole lot more than ingredients and just letting it get old that makes this whiskey differ from that one.

You don't need a card to buy booze at any costco nationwide. It has to do with the fact that they have to apply for a government liquor license so equal protection laws apply. This arose from challenges on race restricted social clubs.

I think they may let you in anyway. Those people are primarily there to warn you that you're gonna have a bad time when you get to the register if you don't have a membership. Wouldn't you be pissed to be standing there with a cart full of groceries and no member card?

The CostCos here in the San Antonio area sell liquor. It has a separate entrance than the main store. Perhaps it's your particular county. In fact, I don't recall having to show my card to go in and buy tequila at the time either.

Our Costco here in TN can only sell liquor via an attached (but with a separate entrance) shop that they're either contracting out, or leasing to someone. It's not really Costco, sadly. And with our laws they're not allowed to carry the Kirkland stuff, which I hear is pretty good for the price.

EDIT - FOR ALL OF THE BAR OWNERS OUT THERE: There are 6,784 ounces in this 53 gallon barrel. If we assume that the average shot is 1.5 ounces, you could squeeze out around 4,522 shots!!!! Now we are talking around $2.53 per shot! Non-bar owners: this is why shots at a bar are so goddamned expensive!

Another Edit - Look Bourbon > Whiskey. I've gotten at least a 1,000 messages "But JD IS BOURBON!!!" If it was bourbon they'd call it bourbon. Bourbon is superior. Why call is "Tennessee Whiskey"? Because it's not bourbon. OK so legally (NAFTA) says it's bourbon. Well fuck that. It's whiskey and WILL NEVER, EVER BE BOURBON!!!!!!!!!

---EDIT--- Just posting pictures of what bourbon actually looks like, since many of you are confused. Including my signed Bulleit Bourbon bottle (try saying that 3 times fast).

Is it a nice place to work? One of the guys who works at my local one said he's going to do his best to get me an interview for the seasonal hiring that's about to start. I'm kind of worried, I worked at a grocery store before and... well it wasn't fantastic.

I thought Tennessee Whiskey was just bourbon that had been charcoal filtered. Is there actually a difference in the ingredients, etc. or is this just one of those bullshit "if it ain't from X, it's not Y." things?

Edit: Yep.

To be labeled as a straight whiskey, flavoring or coloring compounds are prohibited from being added to the spirit after the fermenting of the grain. While it is a common misconception that this requirement prohibits the use of the Lincoln County Process for bourbons, it is actually not uncommon for bourbons to be charcoal filtered, and the decision not to label whiskies that use the process as "bourbon" may only be a choice of marketing strategy.

The term Tennessee Whiskey does not actually have a legal definition in the U.S. Federal regulations that define the Standards of Identity for Distilled Spirits.[11] The only legal definition of the term Tennessee Whiskey in U.S. federally recognized legislation is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which states only that Tennessee whiskey is "a straight Bourbon Whiskey authorized to be produced only in the State of Tennessee".

According to Federal law it is illegal to possess liquor in packages of 1 gallon or more. Probably left over from bootlegging days. Sorry I dont have the actual cite but if you want to go digging through the CFR, heres a link... http://www.ttb.gov/spirits/regs/27cfrpart019.htm

Jack Daniel’s By the Barrel program invites our friends to hand-select their very own barrel of Single Barrel Select. Join Master Distiller Jeff Arnett for a personal tasting, and sample our whiskey until you find the barrel that's just right for you. If you can’t visit us in person, just tell us your taste preferences and we’ll pick out the perfect barrel for you.

My company has purchased has of these and we sell the bottles in our liquor departments. That way if a customer likes the single barrel we have, we are the only place they can get it.

From my understanding that is correct. The question was asked at a Bourbon Distillery tour, the response was that it is taxed 2x. Once when it is made and again when bottled. Therefore it was illegal to sell a barrel of whiskey because it would skirt the bottling tax.

Edit; To clarify some confusion the whisky changes from the initial product of distillation, to aging, to adjusting final abv before bottling. What is initially distilled (whitedog) is a far cry from the final product; so they pay taxes on the distilled spirits and then the final product that is bottled. Also what comes out of the barrels (at least for Bourbon) is adjusted with distilled water to meet legal ABV requirements. What you purchase is not exactly how it comes from the barrel.

Couldn't you just pay the appropriate tax on the amount of bottles it would fill and take your fucking barrel home? I mean wtf, I'm paying near 10,000 for a barrel of whiskey, you better keep that shit in the fucking barrel.

A shot is about 35ml (So a 20th of a bottle), so you've got 4800 shots of whiskey.

The UK NHS classes a shot as one unit, and says to stay healthy, adult men shouldn't regularly exceed 4 a day. So it'll take 1200 days/3.2 years to get through it without killing your liver (though it'll probably be somewhat damaged).

To get through it in a year you'll need to knock back 13.1 shots every day. Or 92 shots a weekend. Or 0.66 bottles. So that's 329% of the recommended daily intake. So you'd probably die.

(Everyone else in this thread was doing calculations about money saving, I thought I'd do some about the real reason to buy a giant barrel of booze)

I was at the distillery in Lynchburg, TN in July. When you order the barrel, they bottle it for you and then ship you the bottles (around 200 bottles IIRC). Also, he masterdistiller signs the barrel and they ship that to you, empty. You also get your name on a plaque on the wall of this special room in the distillery. You do not actually get a wooden barrel full of Jack.

I've actually looked into this before. The whiskey is not actually sold to you in the barrel. You are flown to the Tennessee distillery where you meet with the head honchos there. The liquor is then bottled for you with personalized labels. You are then given the barrel as a keepsake.

So let's say that's a 60 gallon barrel. There's 3785.41 mL in one gallon, so there's 227,124.6 mL in that barrel. Let's break that down by bottle, which is usually 750mL, so that makes just a hair under 303 bottles of Jack in that barrel.

But, this is Jack Single Barrel Select, which runs ~$46 USD for a 750mL. So, 46*303 = $13,938USD. So there's some good savings.

But then again, as soon as you crack that barrel, it starts to go bad. Hope you can drink REALLY fast (this is probably meant for businesses).

they have that barrel on display, but if you actually want the thing, you pick up one of those cardboard things that they use for giftcards and such, and I assume they either give you everything after checkout, or deliver it to your house for you. probably the latter, since not many peoples cars or eve trucks can handle 240 bottles and a barrel.

"Jack Daniel’s By the Barrel program invites our friends to hand-select their very own barrel of Single Barrel Select. Join Master Distiller Jeff Arnett for a personal tasting, and sample our whiskey until you find the barrel that's just right for you. If you can’t visit us in person, just tell us your taste preferences and we’ll pick out the perfect barrel for you."
From the official Jack website.
You can't "drink" it there but they have little loop holes that allow you to taste it. And they allow you to purchase a bottle now too in the shop there. I think the county made special exceptions for them because of how much business they bring in.

Well, if Jack says 240 bottles, that puts the barrel at ~47.5 gallons (at the 750mL bottle unit). That makes the total cost (by 750mL container) $11,040USD, which is still some savings- but yeah, not near as good as the other looked.

Whiskey barrels are 53 gallons. Some will evaporate (about 2-5% per year, depending on weather conditions) but probably not too much as Jack Daniels isn't aged as long as many other whiskeys. Water will also be added after it's dumped to get the proof down to 94.

People buy whole barrels of stuff all the time they just don't usually sell the entire thing. My store bought an entire barrel and had it bottled. Each one has a little plate on it that says it was selected for my store. It's pretty cool actually.

I've been to Lynchburg to visit the Jack Daniel's distillery. The whiskey does not come in the barrel. The buyer gets all of the single barrel in bottles. An empty barrel can be bought for around $100 from gift locations next door to the distillery. JD never uses a barrel more than once. A good barrel maker makes over 200 barrels a day. The wood is grown locally. Somebody mentioned the engraved plate a person receives for an entire barrel order. Many sports teams do this after a championship. Also wealthy people, actors, and actresses. Many are repeat buyers. When you enter the Single Barrel members room, each buyer has their own placard with an engraved plate on it for each purchase.